Vocativ analysis reveals the anchor is facing an onslaught of verbal abuse after Trump announced he won't participate in Fox News debate

Since Donald Trump announced he wouldn’t take part in Thursday’s GOP debate over his dislike of Megyn Kelly, Trump’s fans reacted just as expected: by unleashing a vile torrent of sexist rage against the Fox News anchor.

Looking at 80,000 tweets directed at Kelly’s official Twitter handle from Tuesday to Wednesday morning—as well as close to 1,200 comments posted on her Facebook page over the last month—a Vocativ data analysis showed that in both data sets, Trump’s supporters are trolling the anchor. Hard. Thousands of critics, who largely appear to be on Team Trump, have flooded Kelly’s Twitter and Facebook accounts since Tuesday with offensive comments, calling her a “bimbo” and a “whore” and demanding that she not moderate the debate, which will be the last before the Iowa caucus on February 1.

@megynkelly U r going to cost FOXto lose big money on Thurs.Debate should be done by a REAL journalist w/talent not a trashy skank like you.

Other than Kelly herself, “Trump” was the most-mentioned name in all of the Twitter and Facebook posts directed at the Fox News host since Tuesday morning, the Vocativ analysis discovered. On Twitter alone, Trump’s campaign hashtags were among the most-used hashtags in posts by critics tweeting at Kelly.

Their language was largely gendered, using phrases like “dumb blonde” and other words derogatory to women. “Bitch” appeared the most—a total of 423 times in tweets from the last 24 hours—followed by “bimbo.”

“NOBODY wants to see your bitchy bias mug on the television,” Facebook user Tom Brooke wrote in a comment on a picture of Kelly, showing her with children in the snow. Another Trump supporter, Frank Hoffman, replied to comment on a Facebook photo showing Kelly preparing for the debate: “She needs to stick to stripping.”